

La Chinoise
A movie in the making.
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $30.9K
- Language
- French
- suicide
- paris, france
- based on novel or book
- capitalism
- politics
- roommates
- terrorism
- communism
- class struggle
- maoism
- experimental cinema
- marxism
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR4 Mar 1968
- TheatricalNRRe-release12 Oct 2007
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical24 Nov 1967
- Theatrical (limited)Cinema '684 May 2008
- PremiereOpen City Documentary Festival12 Sept 2021
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical+134 Jan 1973
BrazilBR
- PhysicalDVD13 May 2008
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical14 Jun 1968
FinlandFI
- TheatricalS5 Apr 1968
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP30 Aug 1967
GermanyDE
- Theatrical16West Germany18 Jan 1968
- PremiereGoEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film21 Apr 2022
GreeceGR
- Theatrical (limited)Greek Film Archive5 Jun 2014
Hong KongHK
- PremiereSummer International Film Festival18 Aug 2017
ItalyIT
- PremiereBiografilm Festival24 Jun 2018
JapanJP
- TheatricalRe-release23 Apr 2023
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La Chinoise was released on 30 August 1967.
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CRCulver
6/5/2018
In 1966, Jean-Luc Godard made the acquaintance of some young members of the French Left who felt a strong pull towards Maoism. By looking to China, they sought to escape the traditional division of the French Left into supporters of the Soviet Union, which had lost its revolutionary fervour, and Trotskyist parties, which were impotent. (Of course, at the time the West was still generally unaware of the horrific toll …
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